Screenwriter of the Week- Tonino Guerra
Source: @robinbailes @TheLCW
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“……Guerra was a poet as well as a screenwriter, largely keeping up both careers throughout his life. He started writing in a German concentration camp during the second world war, publishing his first collection of poems in 1946. His first screenplay was Uomini e lupi, about which I know little save that it starred Yves Montand who went on to star in Jean De Florettes (it must sometimes seem in these blogs that Jean De Florettes is the only foreign film I’ve heard of!). His CV is not without it’s blots; 1963′s Perseus Against the Monsters or Andy Warhol’s Flesh for Frankenstein, which is at best an acquired taste, but even the most artistically inclined writer has to eat…….”